Volume 3 - CH 23

Book 3: The Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 23

Today’s match was an exhibition game between the Asian region

and European region.

It was part of the promotional event.

Up till yesterday, the European finals of <Secret Room Storm> had

already ended.  The top two teams were old names, the clubs RAP and

FI.  But for the Asian region, only China’s Guangzhou tournament had

ended, so only the top two teams of the Guangzhou tournament K&K

and Buff were playing.

Ai Qing’s team were just spectators.

The first match was Buff v RAP.

The mission was coincidentally the same mission that Buff had defeated

K&K in earlier, Counter Terrorist Night Battle.

Everybody knew that RAP was SP’s old opponent.

According to the roster published by the European Region, RAP had all

new players.  Ai Qing had watched several of their competition videos.  

Unfortunately, the match ended just 14 minutes and 19 seconds after it started.

Buff lost thoroughly.

Very thoroughly……

“Damn.”  All burst into a tirade of foul language.  “Trash.  They used the

traditional European tactics. It wasn’t some new, special tactics?  Didn’t

Buff decide on their strategy in advance?”

Ai Qing kind of understood them.  “Buff just reorganized, they’re short of

training.  They lack actual fighting experience and don’t understand how

European teams play.”

Since the match began, the rhythm was controlled by RAP, Buff was constantly

reacting so it was no surprise that Buff would lose.

“Buff’s still counts as the currently ranked 1 team.  They didn’t even last more

than 15 minutes,  it doesn’t look good on them.”  Slide commented.

“Top European teams specialize in psychological fighting and they like to rush

the objectives.”  Ai Qing briefly summarized,  “We know this very well, but Buff

may not know.  Even if they know about it, they don’t have the opportunity to

train and formulate counters against this strategy like us.”

After all, a professional team had a manager, coach and all the support staff,

unlike these five players who could only struggle on their own.

This was the invisible advantages.

The entire stadium was a little bit quiet at the sudden loss.

The audience and players were all discussing in muted voices.

……

“The loss just now comes at a surprise.”  The female commentator looked at

the K&K players who had just entered the arena and were checking their

individual equipment.  She looked worried,  “Let me introduce the two most

famous clubs in Europe.  Everybody must be very familiar with RAP.  It was this

team who used the excuse of unqualified servers to frame SP China in the

DotA tournament in the past.”The male commentator echoed her comments,  

“Speaking of RAP, they are known to recruit anybody who’s strong.  Look at the

overall Europe region, only FI’s players have resisted their attempts.  What’s the

reason?  Because FI’s owner is Prince William~Hahahaha, it’s a joke, a joke,

please don’t take it seriously.”

……

This joke…...what a lame joke.

Even Ai Qing was embarrassed for him.

K&K players were now ready inside the arena.

The online live broadcast began.

The loading icon jumped and turned on the big screen.

The system displayed: Counter Terrorist Night Battle.

The entire audience were in an uproar.

It was too coincidental that it was the same mission again.  K&K had lost to

Buff on this mission, then Buff lost to RAP on the same mission ten minutes ago.

Now K&K faced the European champion FI------on the same mission again.

The whole stadium was abuzz, of all kinds of opinions, worries, and fear of losing.  

There was a total of two matches for Chinese teams, if they lost both of them then

it would be a big blow to all the Chinese players……

The countdown began.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1-- --

The scene opened instantly.

“Desert?!  Damn……”  Even the male commentator couldn’t refrain from bursting

into a string of cursing,  “The degree of difficulty is way too high.”

Some players encountered this map at the Guangzhou preliminary, but it was

set in the day time.  There was nowhere to hide.  There were only military bases

and broken walls and ruins.  In other words, they had to go to the bases if

they wanted to kill 100 soldiers and it was more difficult than the street attack.

Ai Qing hadn’t thought about a proper strategy in her head yet.

The sound of an explosion suddenly spread through the whole stadium.

The sound effect was too lifelike, shocking everyone.

Did they already fire at each other?!

So quickly?

Did both sides spawn in the same area?  Fighting already?  Did they have

time to buy weapons?

Many questions popped into her head as she quickly located Dt on the screen.  

He was crawling on the ground, holding a sniper rifle in his hand obviously. It

was totally out of Ai Qing’s expectation. Did Dt even give up on being the main

attacker?

A sniper was necessary in a mature team. However, the sniper wasn’t the main

attacking force in the team.  The sniper could cover teammates and shoot at long

range, a member of the team that would ensure the safety of the entire team and

a strategic killer.

The question was…...their team’s sniper was Grunt all the time.

She immediately went to look for Grunt.

Double snipers?!

The two strongest players of the team were not acting as the main attackers.  

What were they up to?